The National Library’s efforts, widely praised for promoting education, art, and cultural heritage, represent a vital endeavour in safeguarding Pakistan’s intellectual resources and making them accessible to the nation’s scholars.
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The reality is that Pakistan’s publishing industry has not moved with the times, and still obsesses over print books at a time when the country has well over 100 million people online.
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An impressive turnout, as we come to expect at Pakistan’s book fairs, but the books vs technology dichotomy seems sadly still to prevail.
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As so often across South Asia, some people seem unable to understand that books can be read and listened to digitally and that ink and paper is just a vehicle, and does not have any magical qualities in its own right.
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Clearly CM Baqar neither knows nor understand that Pakistan has 116 million people online, every...
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In 2022 the event pulled in 600,000, so no records are expected to be broken this time around. Now...
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No, seriously. It wuz Amazon wot did it! Pakistan is not noted for even being on Amazon’s...
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With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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